I am just one human being.
Dalai LamaI’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.
Kurt CobainThe ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
Richard P. FeynmanI never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine HepburnUltimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
Jim MattisIt’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenIn my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice WalkerI’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody AllenSooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.
Terry PratchettI didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.
Dolly PartonYou can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
Bill GatesOnce you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
Richard M. NixonA friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma BombeckEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellHonolulu is a melting pot.
Bruno MarsThe world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar WildeTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark TwainI am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.
Muhammad AliA man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark TwainLife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie ChaplinI hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.
Lady GagaYour Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
Wayne DyerWere there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence NightingaleFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayPeople don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.
Kevin HartI never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard ShawThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard ShawYou’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt DisneyWhy should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David ThoreauI’m a really particular person. I want it my way.
Billie EilishSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsThere is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel JohnsonHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauAlthough the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle ObamaWe are anthill men upon an anthill world.
Ray BradburyMan is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor DostoevskyBeing young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.
Greta ThunbergI would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.
Robert GreeneAll religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EpictetusWe boil at different degrees.
Clint EastwoodThe idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Richard P. FeynmanLife is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou HoltzOlder people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.
Steve JobsI’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
Taylor SwiftThere is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William ShakespeareWe are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.
Michelle ObamaPeople think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.
RihannaIt is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur SchopenhauerThis is not a bad life.
Stephen KingWanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt CobainIf you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
Maya AngelouI don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas CarlyleThere are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.
Michelle ObamaSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia WoolfOne day it will be over, and I don’t care.
Karl LagerfeldPeople are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
EpictetusNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
Narendra ModiPart of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell